If you’ve been on a day crawl, end your adventure on the rooftop at Gene’s Sausage Shop (4750 N. Lincoln Ave. 773-728-7243)—open until 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday—where you can refuel with house-made sausages.

The University of Illinois' rescinded job offer to a professor and a controversy over a faculty blog at Chicago State University helped land the two schools on a 2014 "worst of" list for student and faculty free speech rights.